From the recording Mama's Biscuits
Two boys, growing up during the Great Depression, helping to feed the family by hunting squirrels & rabbits with their slingshots.
Musicians: Kirby Heard: Vocals, Guitar Ted Ehrhard: Fiddle
Joe Newberry: Banjo
FJ Ventre: Upright Bass
Laurelyn Dossett: Vocals
Lyrics
©J Kirby Heard (BMI)
chorus:
Albea get your slingshot & sit here quietly
We’re gonna get a rabbit
For supper, you and me
Pop expected all of us
to help to run the home
We took to squirrel huntin’,
a skill that we could hone
“Go find us a rock or two,”
My brother always said
He helped me make my slingshot
so we could all be fed
chorus
Woodrow showed me one day
just how to sit and wait
A rabbit or a squirrel
soon would meet its fate
I’m not doin’ “nothin’”
a-leanin’ on this tree
I’m huntin’ food for supper,
my big brother & me
chorus
Pinch that rock real tight
And stretch the rubber band
You gotta be real patient
and hold a steady hand
Wait real nice and quiet like a statue stone
Pop’ll be so proud of us
when we bring supper homechorus